The Key

Summer in my yard is lively.

Hydrangeas, coneflowers and lilies take turns
pleasing me and hopefully a few passers by.
Bees dip into the hosta blooms

Tiny bird beaks bob up and down in the nest
as their mother arrives with food.
Summer is alive.

The key is to see the aliveness when all appears lifeless.
To sense and feel life flowing in leafless trees, bare branches, frozen soil.

The key is to find and feel the soul in all things
especially things appearing dead.

This is how we will heal the hardened heart of man.

-Dawn, The Good News Muse 22 June 2011